Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1887-05-25
ADJUSTMENTS.
End Of the Comic Opera Season-Rhea's
ENLARGEMENT.


The fortnight OF comic opera has come
and gone, and the theatre-goers who at.
tended had as agreeable and varied =
round OF light opera as even the most by.
percritical could desire. There was a
change of programme marty every night,
and some entirely new to Butte were given,
notably "Billee Taylor" which pleased SO
well as to receive q demand for it's repeti-
tion the second week, and ''Girofe- Girofa,''
which was played the last two nights
of the engagement the attendance
fell off the second week, but
there was some excuse for this in the
execrable weather that prevailed all
through the week. That the Bijou Opera
Company was liked by the theatre -goers OF
Butte there can be no question. The COM
pany play all their repertoire with a o.
scientious desire to do the best that in
them lies and do not slur their work in the
slightest. Miss Randall's merits have been
enlarged upon in these columns with par
ticular reference to every character in
which she appeared and the public will
indorse all that has been said. She is GER
tainly the most piquant, pleasing little
lady who has visited Butte for a long
time; a good singer, reaching high notes
accurately: a graceful actress, roguish and
full of little ''chic'' ways hat tell with an
audience immensely and put her at once
zen rapport" with them. In addition she
is supported by a company all of whose
members are well up in their parts and
well fitted for the roles they play. They
have furnished two weeks of innocent
mirth set to pleasant music creditably rem.
dered, and their plays have been presented
with an accuracy in costume that calls for
the warmest commendation. They leave
to-day for Helena with the best wishes of
this community.
MILE. L.
Tomorrow night the great, widely her.
make her appearance here. That she will
be greeted by a fine audience is already as.
sured, for expectation and curiosity have
been raised to a high pitch in regard to this
woman who may justly be de.
scribed as a star oftwo continents. She made
q magnificent record in Europe before ON
ing to America, and in this country her
is a by-word from Maine California.
She, Sarah B%ernhardt, Mary Anderson and
Mrs. Langtry are considered by managers
the strongest drawing cards On the stage.
successful, both artisticaliy and
financially. Like most foreign stars she
possesses a seemingly limitless capacity for
work, rehearses her company persistently
ind as a result is able to give performances
which attain a remarkably high standard
If perfection. Shs is mistress of the
'tage art in all it's details, having gained
Ter wide experience in the principal thea
res of Europe, where she played before
probably the most critical audiences in the
World. For a long period she was the
star at the Imperial Theatre,
1t. Petersburg, where she was
.vished with costly mementoes,
,mong them being a superb
he Inflated Car who was later on assas-
by the Nihilists. She bears the
equation of being a most extravaganza I
resser, and hergowns for FAIRY Fingers" i
and Camille "are described
8 little short of inspirations. =
The opening play, for tomorrow evening,
ill be Gilbert's comedy, entitled, "Pygma-
on and Galatea." which, while beginning
works up to an absorbingly '
athletic and well nigh tragic climax. In q
his work Rhea shines to excellent advan-
age. She has a face of remarkableintellect e
al beauty, and a figure at once slender Z
nd graceful, two attributes most neces-
ery for a complete representation of the Z
wing statue. Her rendering of Galatea is v
many essential particulars different to
AIRY Anderson's. The latter, even after q
le statue has been imbued with life, still
statue-like in all her movements
I'd poses. Rhea, on the contrary, dis >,
lrds all suggestions of her former marble =
'ndition, becomes interestingly human, "
nd presents a picture OF the girl, born
ut yesterday" which is at once vastly Il
musing, charming and ingenious. The +
osing scene, where she is once more con- I
gned to stone, is said to possess a mourn
! and pathetic beauty which is almost a
agic in its intensity. That the actress p
ries Of performances here will be highly 81
l~rcessful financially, there is slight doubt.
hat they will be a treat OF the first order I'll
certain. II